Montessori Education is unique because it focuses on each child's individual potential.

In 1929, Dr. Maria Montessori established AMI, Association Montessori Internationale, to preserve the integrity of her life's work and ensure that it would be continued after her death.  Dr. Montessori said, "the education of even a very small child...Does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life."  She discovered that the mind of the child, which in the first six years of life, is different from that at any later stage of development, she called this the absorbent mind.

In a Montessori school setting, such as KIM School, of mixed ages that is non-graded, the children spontaneously and independently use materials designed by Dr. Montessori. The children independently choose their own activities and develop practical and intellectual abilities through personal discovery and exploration of language, mathematics, geography, geometry, art and music.

The extremely social atmosphere of this environment branches from a unique combination of freedom and structure that is found on respect.

KIM's Montessori education aids the fullest development of your child's potential and provides them with the foundation for a life of joyful learning.

Our schoolhouse environment itself models the inspiration of Dr. Montessori.  It is tailored to the children.  All built to their eye-level with work stations, benches, cubbies, sinks, bathrooms, even lunch tables that literally fit them.

Creating the most natural and life-supporting environments for the child, observing the child living freely in the environment and continually adapting and modifying the environment so that each child may fulfill their greatest potential, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually are what Dr. Montessori encouraged others in children's education to consider and what KIM School does.

KIM school is accredited by AMI. You can learn more about Dr. Montessori, her life's work and AMI at their website, www.montessori-ami.org.  KIM School continues in the footprints laid out by Dr. Montessori. 

All staff at KIM School must hold a certificate and go through extensive training of Dr. Montessori's methods. We are motivated by her ideas and look forward to working with your children as they learn skills that will not only prepare them for school, but for life.

"It is true, we cannot make a genius,"  Dr. Montessori once wrote, "We can only give each individual the chance to fulfill his potential possibilities to become an independent, secure and balanced human being."